Cape Froward is the southernmost

Five southernmost capes

The Five Southernmost Capes refer to the 5 geographically southern mainland points on the earth.-America:Cape Froward, Chile is the southernmost point on the mainland of South America-Africa:...

 point on the mainland

Mainland

Mainland is a name given to a large landmass in a region , or to the largest of a group of islands in an archipelago. Sometimes its residents are called "Mainlanders"...

 of South America

South America

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. It is located in the North shores of Magellan Strait, being the southern tip of the Brunswick Peninsula

Brunswick Peninsula

Brunswick Peninsula is a large peninsula in Magallanes y la Antártica Region, Patagonia, Chile, at . It is wide at its base in the north, and almost in the south. It measures in length from the base to Cape Froward, the southernmost point of the American mainland. This yields an area of more...

; in Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an territory.

It was the English corsair, Thomas Cavendish

Thomas Cavendish

Sir Thomas Cavendish was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe...

, in January 1587, named the place after the climate's roughness with rains and winds.

On the cape's hill was built a large metallic cross (Cruz de los Mares, Cross of the Seas) in honor to John Paul II Pope's

Pope John Paul II

Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...

 visit to Chile, back in 1987, it was first built in 1913, and several times in between due to the harsh weather.

See also

• Cape Horn
  Cape Horn
  Cape Horn is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island...
  
  
• False Cape Horn
  False Cape Horn
  False Cape Horn or Falso Cabo de Hornos is a headland at the south end of Hoste Island, 35 statute miles northwest of Cape Horn, located at . False Cape Horn is the southernmost point of the large islands of the Tierra del Fuego group, located close to the mainland of South America.At least 100...
  
  
• Froward Point
• XII Región de Magallanes